# Parliament: A Threshold Secret Sharing Service

DevFeed: [Parliament: A Threshold Secret Sharing Service](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/parliament-a-threshold-secret-sharing-service-15803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/parliament-a-threshold-secret-sharing-service>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2013-10-23T16:04:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encryption.md>), [Cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cryptography.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>)

Tags: [cryptographic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptographic.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [private-key](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/private-key.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [public-key](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/public-key.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [signing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/signing.md>)

## AI overview

Square's Parliament is a threshold secret-sharing service for protecting high-value secrets. It uses Shamir's scheme to distribute encrypted shares and requires approval from a configurable quorum of users before reconstructing a secret.

## Source excerpt

Making it easy to protect high-value secrets.